David Tuller

Trial By Error: My Interview with Melbourne’s Dr Don Lewis

By David Tuller, DrPH When I visited Melbourne in March of last year, I heard a lot about Dr Don Lewis, a local physician beloved by those with ME, or €œchronic fatigue,€ as Australian patients, scientists and clinicians routinely called the illness, to my dismay. At the time, Dr Lewis ...

Trial By Error: An Ill-Informed Article in The Guardian

By David Tuller, DrPH People who know little or nothing about the illness or cluster of illnesses variously called myalgic encephalomyelitis, chronic fatigue syndrome, CFS/ME, and ME/CFS can’t seem to stop writing stupid and ill-informed stories about it. And Professor Michael Sharpe seems to blame “Americans”--rather than his own disastrous ...

Trial By Error: More GET Drivel from Australia

By David Tuller, DrPH Some Australian members of the GET/CBT ideological brigades have published yet more nonsense and drivel about "graded exercise therapy" as a treatment for ME/CFS, or what they are still calling "chronic fatigue syndrome." The article, simply called "Chronic fatigue syndrome: graded exercise therapy," is in a ...

Trial By Error: NHS ME/CFS Clinics Lax on Treatment Harms, Study Finds

By David Tuller, DrPH In the last few years, the Journal of Health Psychology has provided a valuable platform for researchers, academics, and other experts who have challenged the claims made in the discredited PACE trial and other research from the CBT/GET ideological brigades. Last month, the journal published a ...

Trial By Error: Our Exchange with BMJ Journal about “Correction” of LP Study

By David Tuller, DrPH Same-Day Update: I forwarded our response to Dr Brown's letter (see below) to Dr Fiona Godlee, BMJ's editorial director. I also cc-d others on my e-mail to Dr Godlee. Here's what I wrote: Dear Fiona-- Dr Brown, the editor-in-chief of Archives of Disease in Childhood, sent ...